Here, in Decatur, Georgia, and for that matter in the Atlanta metropolitan area generally, kids start school very early and end very early. In Decatur’s case, they start school the first Monday in August and end right before Memorial Day. So, next week my daughter starts summer vacation. She is in for a pretty busy
May 2017
Gender Dysphoria and the ADA
By William Goren on
The big news from last week was the decision from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania holding that gender dysphoria is a protected disability under the ADA. The opinion can be found here. Also, this blog entry specifically references a blog published elsewhere by Christine Duffy, Esq., whom I have known for over 20 years. She…
How is Fry playing out in the lower courts?
By William Goren on
In searching for a blog entry to do this week and striking out with my Lexis alert, I thought it might be interesting to see how Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, discussed here, was playing out in the lower courts. When I did that, I came across the case of K.G. v. Bluff-Luton Community School …
Wrongful Discharge and the In-house Attorney or HR Director
By William Goren on
Before moving to Atlanta (as a result of my wife getting a job here), and devoting myself full-time to my practice of understanding the ADA, I taught people how to be paralegals in higher education for 12 years. The last four of which I ran an ABA approved paralegal program and was the ADA instructional…
Did You Know that an Exhaustion Requirement for Title II and §504 Exists? Me Neither…
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I bet you didn’t know that in some circumstances title II and §504 may contain an exhaustion requirement. The reason I’m guessing you didn’t know is that until I saw this case, Sierra v. School Board of Broward County, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62498 (S.D. Fla. April 20, 2017), it hadn’t occurred to me…